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In preparation for my years at college I need to purchase a new laptop. I've always really wanted a mac and I can finally afford to do so now, and one of the biggest attractions to it was the advertised 7 hour battery life. However, after reading many reviews and forum threads it appears as if OSX Lion completely destroys the 7 hour battery life. I did read on mac rumors that OSX Mountain Lion is going to be released soon and it should fix the problem, but do you think I should wait to buy a Mac Book Pro with it already pre-installed or just buy one now and pick it up when it's released?

Apple has announced a plethora of awesome news at this year's WWDC - ranging from software showstoppers iOS 6 and Mac OS X Mountain Lion, to refreshed MacBook Airs and Mac Pros - but it was the new 15" MacBook Pro that stole the show.

While the MacBook Air refreshes were to be expected, we were incredulous about the too-good-to-be-true rumored Retina Display MacBook Pro. But Apple made it happen.

The new 15-inch MacBook Pro will sport a 15.4 inch diagonal screen with Retina Display, at a resolution of 2880 x 1880. At 220 ppi, Apple says pixels are virtually indiscernible to the human eye.

The new screen has deeper blacks, better viewing angles, and a drastically reduced glare (75 percent less, if Apple is to be believed).

To make use of the new 1080p display, Apple has updated many of its apps. They showed off improved versions of Mail, Safari, iMovie, and iPhoto. Third party support for Photoshop and Diablo 3 were also shown.

The processor has also gotten a bump, to Intel Ivy Bridge quad-core i5 and Core i7 processors. Peel the back panel off and it's 90% battery - which leads to 7 hours battery life, or up to 30 days standby.

Apple’s also finally added USB 3.0 ports, as well as two Thunderbolt ports and HDMI out.

The new MacBook Pro has boosted their VGA FaceTime Camera to a 720p HD camera, and dual microphones should drastically improve future Skype calls.

There’s also a backlit keyboard, Bluetooth 4.0, 802.11n Wi-Fi.

Somehow Apple has managed to fit all this into an unbelievably slim .71 inch chassis. To contrast, that’s only slightly thicker than the MacBook Air, which is .54 inches at its thickest.

All this luxury is going to cost a pretty penny. At $2199 for the base model, the computer is certainly not for everyone, but we found even the base model to be pretty stacked. It comes with a 2.3GHz quad-core i7 processor, 8GBs of RAM, 256GB SSD, and a GeForce GT 650m 1GB graphics card.

So what say you? Are you unimpressed with the price, or will this be your next computer?